The Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed construction on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) — the world's largest radio telescope. [ + ]

Scientific instrument supplier Scientex has announced that US chemical company AAPPTec will now ship its products directly to Australian customers. [ + ]

Although about half of heart disease risk is inherited, genetics are not featured in current approaches to risk calculation — at least, not yet. [ + ]

Swiss biotech company BioLingus has been selected as the 2016 winner of The CEO Magazine's Most Innovative Biotech Company award. [ + ]

CSIRO has announced that it will grow its investment in new areas of breakthrough science to over $52 million per year by 2020, helping to turn Australia's challenges into opportunities and invent a better future. [ + ]

The 2016 Johnson & Johnson Innovation 2016 Industry Excellence Awards, which recognise and honour high achievers in the Australian life sciences industry, are now open for nominations. [ + ]

World leaders have signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — a phenomenon that occurs when bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi develop resistance against medicines that were previously able to cure them. [ + ]

Researchers have found a new avian influenza virus in Antarctica, causing concern that viruses could be reaching the continent more often than previously thought. [ + ]

AXT has partnered with Unchained Labs and will now be exclusively distributing its innovative and novel range of instruments for the analysis and formulation of biologics in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

InterSystems Corporation is holding a seminar to celebrate the launch of what it claims is the world's first laboratory business management system (LBMS), TrakCare Lab Enterprise. [ + ]

Researchers have revealed that they can 'see' emotional states in the human brain using magnetic resonance imaging — even when their subjects are just letting their minds wander. [ + ]

Scientists have found that peptide molecules from the venom of a marine cone snail contain an insulin-like natural protein that can operate more rapidly than human insulin. [ + ]

Lonza has announced a resource that addresses a key topic of debate in the endotoxin detection community — low endotoxin recovery (LER). [ + ]

Singaporean scientists have developed a protein that can alter DNA in living cells with higher precision than current methods. [ + ]

The Johnson & Johnson Australia Family of Companies has announced the winners of its inaugural Heath and Technology Challenge (HaTCHathon). [ + ]